A Maya bowl Mexico earthenware

A Maya bowl

Mexico

earthenware, with concave sides, the exterior painted with three warrior heads to a white ground, the interior with an orange ground and darker bands,

17cm diameter,

a Maya deep earthenware bowl, with two exterior panels painted a stylised falcon head, a tripod bowl and a deep red-ware lobed vessel. (4)

Provenance

Sir Peter Hope KCMG, 1912 - 1999, British Intelligence Officer and later Ambassador to Mexico 1968-72.

Exhibited

Deep bowl - Ancient Mesoamerica, Precolumbian Mexican and Maya Art, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 4th June to 31st July 1970. No. 139..